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Another death in custody at Rikers, officials said — jail on track to outpace last year
Ramel Powell, 38, and Sonia Reyes, 55, both died on Rikers Island earlier this year. Terrence Moore, 55, died in Department ...
5 inmates have died at Rikers Island in past six weeks, officials say
Five inmates have died at the Rikers Island jail complex in the last six weeks, officials say. At least 38 people have died ...
Rikers detainee dies from apparent medical episode, fifth NYC jail-linked death in 6 weeks
The death was the fifth since Feb. 19, when Ramel Powell died at the Otis Bantum Correctional Center. That total matches the ...
Queens Daily Eagle9d
Woman becomes fourth Rikers detainee to die in 2025
A 55-year-old woman was allegedly found dead inside her cell on Rikers Island early Thursday morning, marking the fourth time ...
New York Post10d
As ‘Close Rikers’ grows ever more impossible, progressives insist ever harder on doing it
In its latest report, even the Lippman Commission admits the Rikers Island prison complex can’t close by 2027, but the reality-denying City Council refuses to admit it. The first of the ...
New York Daily News4d
Rikers detainee who ‘suddenly became unwell’ and died had been sick for days
The Rikers Island jail complex. (Seth Wenig/AP) Quidone, who grew up in the Vladeck Houses on the Lower East Side, was arrested on two robbery charges March 6 and entered the jails March 7.
Gothamist13d
Woman dies at Rikers Island, NYC jail officials say — 4th detainee death of 2025
Her death is the fourth death of a Rikers detainee so far this year, and follows that of Ariel Quidone, 20, last week and ...
PBS16d
Rikers Island
That could see a court-appointed outside authority take charge of Rikers Island by early next… Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months in jail Former Trump ...